berzniz / backbone.directives

Give your backbone apps super-powers with AngularJS style directives.

Backbone Directives

Give your Backbone.js apps super-powers with AngularJS style directives.

What/Why?

Everything is explained in this blog post: Give your Backbone.js apps super-powers with AngularJS style directives.

Demo

Check out the Demo

Status

Please note that this is version 0.0.1 which is only a proof of concept.

It work quite nicely, but it is not complete, not optimized for performance and not well tested yet.

Installation

Just include backbone.directives.js after you include backbone.js, it's not AMD/UMD compatible yet.

Usage

Add directives to your DOM/HTML-templates (as seen in the demo page) and just call this.$compile() as the last statement of your view's render method.

DOM:

<div class="some-view">
    <span bb-bind="counter"></span>
</div>

Javascript:

// Create a new model with a counter attribute
var model = new Backbone.Model({counter: 1});

// Declare a view that calls $compile
var MyView = Backbone.View.extend({
    render: function() {
        this.$compile();
        return this;
    }
});

// Create a new view, with the model and DOM element
var view = new MyView({
    el: $('.some-element'),
    model: model
});

view.render();

This is the first and last time you need to call render. Any change in counter will be reflected in the UI.

Contact

Find me on github: Tal Bereznitskey

Follow me on Twitter: @ketacode

ENJOY!